Products Features

FineReport has the features that designing report through drag and drop SQL elements and creating complicated report layout using Cell worksheet. It creatively and beautifully binds data together with Cell, supporting multiple data source/layout, irregular grouping, two way extending data, etc. Therefor, it's not necessary for user to pretreat data and write program to do reporting, which not only dramatically relieve the work to create and maintain reports, reduce the time to present data, but aslo let user input and revise data through thin AJAX interface.

You will find many powerful features, such as you can participate in designing the report only with few knowledge about SQL, Different from the report of the traditional Cell type, FineReport support dynamic data binds to settle, 90% do not need to write program, as long as drag along can design out in brief in the report template designer. The main design consideration of Finereport is "as easy as possible for the user".

  • End User Reporting:Since Microsoft Excel is a very popular spreadsheet editor, FineReport creates a report design interface very similar to Excel in appearance and operation to let normal user design report without least training.
  • Customized Report Designer:FineReport has the plug-in designer component, so user can extend and embed it to create report designer customized for individual industry, which will decrease the difficulty in learning and increase user's satisfaction.
  • Client Printing from Web Browser:Web page printing relies on the browser, which may not provide consistent client side print format. FineReport seamlessly integrates Adobe Acrobat Reader and the DIV function of browser to create the amazing report web printing similar to MS word.
  • Complete Report API for Easy Extending and User Secondary Development:FineReport is constructed on the open API, which can be utilized by any user to customize the report with various formats for specific need.
  • Report Server:FineReport server is a Java Servlet, which can be embedded in any Java web server or J2EE server (Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere). User just needs to publish the designed report template by putting it on the designated directory of the server without any coding.
  • Web Browser based Report Review and Edit:No ActiveX control any more, AJAX enabled web report and edit let user enjoy the powerful report without installing and maintaining any client side software.
  • Flexible Parameter Editor and Customized Parameter Input Layout:In production, most of report has parameter to filter data. FineReport designer provides parameter editor to help user to define parameter with type, input format and position on the report page. So user has no need to create a separate parameter input page to invoke the report by extra coding.
  • Report Timer:FineReport built-in timer can trigger generating report at designated time on the report server, so report with huge volume or heavy computation can be pre-run in advance on the report server background to reduce the user waiting time on the front end.
  • Data Import and Export:To facilitate user is working with existing application, FineReport provides the data import and export function, which allows to import Excel Workbook and XML Templates, and exports report to Excel Workbook, PDF, MS Word, SVG, Text and CSV format files.